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Lepidium didymum L.
Family Brassicaceae
Common name: Lesser Swinecress

Lepidium didymum L. APNI*

Synonyms: Coronopus didymus (L.) Sm. APNI*

Description: Annual or perennial 15–30 cm high, prostrate to ascending, glabrous to pilose, foetid.

Basal leaves to 9 cm long, petiolate, pinnatisect with 3–7 pairs of pinnatifid lobes, lobes ± linear; stem leaves reducing to entire.

Flowers < 2 mm long, white. Stamens usually 2. Silicula 1.5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, 2-lobed, constricted at septum; valves subglobose; pedicel 2–3 mm long.


Habit
Photo L. von Richter

Herbarium
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Distribution and occurrence: Widespread weed. Native of South America & Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *NWP, *SWP, *LHI
AVH map***

Text by L. Retter & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990) as Coronopus didymus


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